mercoledì 24 settembre 2014

The Islamic State: Insurgency and crime, the Networked Insurgency.

It is the right time to tackle a topic crucial
for me to understand the synergy of interests between the international powers
that alter the course of world events.

First of all, it should be understood that
governments, all governments in this century, have less power than ever in fact
others are actors and international factors that are able to assert themselves:
the lobbies or centers of interest, however, not wanting to convey a priori
negative meaning to this category.

Thus, in the contemporary scene, the theme
should be added to the definition antithetical to institutional policy: the insurgency,
that is the challenge for the most violent of the established power.

The outbreaks of revolt on the planet are
hundreds, indeed we can certainly assert that where there is power, there is -in
nuce- insurgency. This topic deserves, because of the social consequences that
entails, careful thought and a lot of luck to deal with it; but few address the
issue from a more and more important aspect is to say, the relationship that,
with increasing frequency, the insurgency connections with organized crime,
local and international.

So we have: centers of power-political-onset-crime.
These are the actors playing their parts on the current geopolitical stage.

The first mistake often committed by
superficiality, is the overlap of insurgency with terrorism; absolutely wrong.
Terrorism is just a tactic of a more comprehensive strategy in which the
insurgent may, if deemed appropriate and if it may pay, use. We may assert that an insurgent is a
revolutionary; one who wants to change the status
quo and that to achieve this goal is often willing to make even agreements
with the devil. And these agreements are made systematically and almost always
with the same demon: the crime.

It is even logical that it happens because a
revolutionary group have the necessity to quickly and effectively adopt a
structure and available resources to invest in his project. Of course organized
crime can easily furnish weapons, means and men to recruit, logistics
facilities, and especially contacts and relationships. Today, wars are done in
this way at a lower level compared to the tables of international diplomacy
which often merely to take note, or at least to regulate, agreements made
elsewhere. Insurgents and criminals shaking relationships, do business and
build structure for the future. There are dozens examples in the past, and for
anyone who wants to go into that topic I suggest an approach to the history of
the Sicilian Separatist Movement on the Forties focusing on the agreement
between the Sicilian mafia and the future political representatives of the
nascent Italian Republic sealed by the murder of the bandit Salvatore Giuliano;
the very first and only state-negotiation mafia that has always been under the
eyes of all but only some evoke.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
certainly took advantage of the interests of many international players who
have used it both in anti-Iranian anti-Syrian strategy even in the knowledge
that one day in the future it would present the bill. But in international
politics you deal with a problem at a time, say it is short-sighted choice.

Here this is one of the aspects of crime,
especially organized: offer its services with the double advantage acquiring
immediately a new customer and maybe a
future political “friend”.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is
nothing but the result of local and international interests that have generated
an actor who is not at all out of control, on the contrary it plays exactly the
role that has been assigned to: generate a situation of permanent global
instability that has been stigmatized by the catholic Pope with the expression World War III. I would rather speak
of the First Permanent World War in which a new actor takes part and play a multi-purpose,
multi-service and above all reliable and fundamental role: the organized crime.